July 2016

Here are the topics I chose to talk about on RadioLive for the month. Some of them may not have been mentioned on the radio due to a lack of time.

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• 3 July 2016

• Christchurch City Council to reduce use of weedkiller

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Glyphosate

• 110 Nobel laureates tell Greenpeace they are wrong about GMOs

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, GMO

• Jail time for dad who treated son's meningitis with alternative treatments

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Naturopathy

• Ken Ring tells people not to trust anything

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Moon

• 17 July 2016

• Muslim call "For Public Purity", asking for people to hide dogs, appears to be a hoax

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Islam

  1 min read, 138 words. Continue Reading...

• Sad news for Pastafarianism

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, FSM

  1 min read, 78 words. Continue Reading...

• FYI needs help categorising OIA requests

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Information, FYI

  1 min read, 51 words. Continue Reading...

• The NZ Herald does it again with "natural" remedies for glandular fever

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Naturopathy

  1 min read, 115 words. Continue Reading...

• US Pastor says that Pokemon are "digital demons"

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Pokemon

  1 min read, 182 words. Continue Reading...

• 10 July 2016

• Noah's Ark "replica" opens in Kentucky, US

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Religion, Ark

  2 min read, 217 words. Continue Reading...

• Bee Venom is supposedly an effective cosmetic

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Bee, Venom

  1 min read, 160 words. Continue Reading...

• US man thinks he knows "the secret" to winning the lottery

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Lottery

  2 min read, 280 words. Continue Reading...

• Sensing murder episodes are being rerun on TVNZ

  Categories: Skepticism , Tags: Pseudoscience, Psychic

  6 min read, 1078 words. Continue Reading...